ZURICH—AND AFTERWARDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 11

ZURICH—AND AFTERWARDS.

MR. MEYER'S "NEW THOUGHT."

The Rev. F. 13. Meyer, the well-known London Baptist minister, recently preached an impressive sermon 011 "Zurioh—and Afterwards," in' which lxo gavo some impressions of the recent World's ' Sunday School Convention. TaJting for his text, "lohabod, tlio glory is departed from Israel," lie did not treat the verso so niuoli by way of exposition as tho foundation of a protest against pessimism in relation to tlio Kingdom of God. Ho acknowledged that, wlien they cmbairked for the Continent, _he liad been ' affected by the gloom induced by tho emphasis "which had been laid upon tlio "arrnsted progress" of the Church, and bv the dislocation of the n.ncient habit/; of'religion in England. But Zurich bad 110! only dispersed h.is depression, Init givi> li.im a new hope and a new vision, li a notable reference to Zwiimli. IV Mcyor characterised him as "the f,r-f .Ti est oiP tlio'Reformers," .and stvAo 11; Zurich itself as tho prolific no'iin cf Protestantism, Puritanism, and l'W-.wm.. I!he fivo cliaractoristio notes of the convolition wihioh Mr. Meyer ompiiiisisei! were; (1) Unity, (2) power, (31 passion. (4) unconquerable optimism, (5) ft now thought—tlio world' was to l» wor through tho ohildi.